Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Eleanor Atwood, CC OOnt FRSCis a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, winning once, and has been a finalist for the Governor General's Award several times, winning twice. In 2001, she was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame. She is also a founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada, a...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth18 November 1939
CityOttawa, Canada
CountryCanada
I don't want to look at something that determines me so completely.
we lived in the gaps between the stories
Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.
How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word.
By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being.
That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before.
A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women.
Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.
We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?
Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
They all disowned their parents long ago, the way you are supposed to
Put yourself in a different room, that's what the mind is for.
I've never bought into any sort of hard and fast, this-box/that-box characterization. People are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be a particular way. But that doesn't mean they're going to be that way.